6/24/2009 @ 1:45PM

In Pictures: The Longest White-Collar Prison Sentences

Bernard Madoff got sent away for 150 years for his massive $65 billion swindle in a dramatic sentencing hearing in New York federal court on June 29. The sentence, handed down by Judge Denny Chin, was the maximum allowable. The Bureau of Prisons will now determine which prison will be Madoff’s new home. But it is still only the fourth-longest white-collar sentence handed down in recent years, according to an analysis by Forbes. Judges are hardly going soft. A spate of 20- and 30-year terms shows a new fervor for example-setting from the bench. For many middle-aged convicts, thats pretty much a life term. Here are the longest sentences.